All Star Western Theatre — 1948
33 episodes broadcast in 1948.
Jerry loses his cook's job over his devotion to his donkey -- and there are cowboy songs besides.
The Riders set out after a marauding mountain lion.
The local lawman hands the Riders a herd to move, and the cattle's history looks anything but clean.
A furtive stranger flees the law across the frontier, carrying a secret that explains everything -- a well-told chase.
The theft of a prized pair of spurs threatens to ruin the young silversmith who forged them.
A popcorn trail out of "Hansel and Gretel" leads the Riders straight to a pair of killers. Monty Montana guests.
Alfred Noyes's poem "The Highwayman" transplanted to a Western setting.
The Riders meet "Grandma," whose famous apple pies hide a deadly ingredient.
Someone has been killed in a deserted ghost town, and the mystery is where to even begin. Eddy Arnold guests.
An ancient romance among the first peoples of the West, drawn out with unhurried care.
A mine owner called Nugget Nan quietly promises a quarter-stake in the same claim to one buyer too many -- an Old-West farce in the making.
The Riders are snowbound in a one-room schoolhouse through a monster storm, with Nick Lucas and his hits.
A murder frame-up lands squarely on the Riders.
Even in a more settled West, a man finds that some scores can only be squared with a six-gun.
The border's famous pair, the Cisco Kid and Pancho, ride in as guests.
An Eastern chewing-gum millionaire buys himself a spread and sets out to play at being a cowboy.
When a circus rolls into town, its smallest performer proves the key to cornering a band of crooks.
May 22, 1948
When Michael Roy pays the ranch a call, he turns out to be far more greenhorn than cowhand.
Lost and parched in the desert, the Riders are pulled back from death by a Navajo leader called Many Horses.
Preston Foster lends his voice to the songs and unspools a yarn about the hanging judge, Roy Bean.
Foy and the boys nearly freeze -- in 128-degree desert heat.
How does a fellow court a lady cactus-collector? Very carefully.
July 3, 1948
A chronic worrier of a rancher strikes oil -- and his troubles are only beginning.
A radio quiz show comes to the rescue of a present-day "pioneer."
July 24, 1948
July 31, 1948
A visit with blustering desert rancher "Stony" Smith, who fancies himself the Patton of the sagebrush.
A practical joker finally gets what's coming to him -- right in the funnybone.
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